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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24
SIZE DIED a BEGGAE.
Yet in iicr Room Was Found seven Thou
sand Dollars in Money and Bonds.

w !" nv h"""' was fohhd seven 'hoE
sand DoilasS in Money and bonds.
a Boston spccinl saws thot from,
bcggnrly little room at Inc rear of M
II Albany street. in that city NIrs Ma,
Smith WAS removed 10 the Gity uosnito1
Saturday nipht, where She died hrfnrr
moruiu9. Sho wns seventy siv yn,r,
old, and without doubt The most wrctcr.
cdly Dire I'd ,rsatl,rc in MI Boston trr
room was miser.bly filthy. and hc,
clothes wcr, Iff,e / lie, t,4,n nIJ r"t..
kept together by Strings.
Mrs. Smith n.tsn nr1rrssi,.r,,l hro,,,,
and it was Willie lunpiug about ON NV
daily rounds in search Of cnnrisv So.Ir-
,av that She was knocked down an
rum over bv Il carcless butcher bow .t tbn
corner OF Howard and llu!son Streets
Somebody removed her to her homo ana
notified the police amt had her taken to
the City Hospital She was not badly
hurt, but her advanced years and her
cnfccbicd condition resulting from long
years OF plivntiou could not withstand
the shock Before she died she sail
something about her money and ask,!
that J4nwyc- Charles Colbotn bpuotiicl.
The hospital attendants believed tLc
poor creature was wan.crnE in hcl
ullHN, HIS ApIb'il',, lbNtNi y, word
was sent 20 the lawyer, when they wcrl
surprised 70 hear that the old woman
had recently made VIII and was worth
several thousand dollars.
The police were notified and an officer
detailed to search the miscrjy lodgings.
Opening the door ot the old womou's
room, u toul CGor crested Em ana Il
dozen rats disappeared lcisurr'y into
their holes. The officer began his search
by ripping open the first Of the Two ola
mattresses, when, to his surprise, several
handsome gold and silver Coins ratified
down on the floor. The sawdust, chips
and hUsks with which the mattress Was
stuffed, were poured ont into a pile be
side the bed. Scattered among this chan
was Il huttul Of bank notes. Officer
Franks polkcd over the pile and saw that
many of the bills were rolled uD into
wads and TIED With greasy strings. He
cut these with his knife, and counting
the wealth found 5000. On the wall
over the bed hung nm old pctticoat.
Mechanically thrusting his hand into the
pockets he drew out q hard rag. Opening
this so in bills lay in his hand. On n
peg near by was another pctticoat. As
the officer graspcd it to replace it on tic
hook be felt a hard bunch Of something
inside the Inning. Cutting the threads
with ms knife, little bag dropped out
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24
a Mammoth Turtle.

While the steamer Flora Temple was
cruising near the snapper banks, ycstcr-
day, about fifteen miles of shore, Capt.
Montcalm Broward observed an inn
mense black object floating on the sur
face of the water. Upon approaching it
he discovered that it was an immense
sleeping on the surface of the water.
The captain secured harpoon, and
when near enough he dcxtcrously threw
the weapon and succeeded in fixing it
firmly in the back Of the monster. 1t
was found impossible to raise this noun
tain of flesh to the boat, SO that the
captain attached n hawscr to the har-
poon, and taking it III tow, brought il
up to the city, arriving at Dccotte's wood
yard about five O'Clock, when the huge
object was hauled out upon the shore,
where its great size soon attracted Il
large crowd who gazed with wonder at
the strange visitor. The weight of the
captains catch was variously estimated
to be from 1000 to 1000 pounds; il
measured across the anterior fully eight
feet two inches, was seven feet two
inches from the end of the nose to the
tip of the tail, and perhaps eight feet in
circumference. The captain called his
catch tortoise, but the News Herald
man identified it as a peculiarly splendid
specimen of the trunk or lcathery turtle
(Sphargis Cariacea,) This great sea
dcnizen inhabits the gulf stream along
the Atlantic shores and elsewhere. II
does not have shell, but is covered Will
leathery skin, with seven longitudina
ridges. 1t is the largest of the turtl,
tribe, and is OF no value as food. Jack
sonville (Fla.) News Herald.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24
Let tho Boys H,Ip.

Why is it that the boys are allowed to
sit around house doing nothing, while
their overworkcd mother is struggling
against nature and fate to do the work %
Only the other day we saw three large,
able. bodied boys lounging about the
house, not knowing what to do with
themselves, while their mother, tired
and pale, was trying to do the work for
a large family and company alone. Not
boys work TO help about the house?
Why not? Is there anything about
washing dishes that will injure him or
which he cannot learn to do well, or
about making beds, or sweeping, or set
ting the table, or washing, or ironing,
or cooking plain meal? On the con
trary, there is much to benefit him in
such work, the most important of which
is the idea that it isn't manly to lot the
"weakor vessel" carry all the burdens,
when it is possible for strong, young
hands to help.
Most boys would gladly help in the
house if they were asked to do 80, and
were taught how to do tho work proper
ly. Many a smart boy wants to help
his tired mother, but doesn't know how
beyond bringing in the wood and the
water, and shoveling path through the
snow. This done, she tells him to go
and play while she plods wearily on.
Not boys work. For shame 1t
is positive harm to boys moral char.
acter to allow him to think it right to be
idle while his mother is staggering under
her burdens. Let sthe boys help, and
those who can't get help "for love OF
money, as they often write to us, viii
see their troubles disappear. Philadel
phia Methodist.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24
"SaY, why is everything

TIIIHCT UU SIAU5 OF WV bCVCIISI
Probably, my dear nervous sister bc.
cause you are suffering from some OF the
diseases peculiar to your sex. You have a
dragging down" feeling, the back-ache,
you arc deblitated, you have pains of va
rious kinds Take Dr. II. V. Pierce's
"Fayoritc Prescription" and be cured.
Price reduced to one dollar. BY druggists.
The tenants on the Ponsonby estate in
Ireland have engaged civil engineer to
supervise the construction of works of
defense in preparation for the expected
evictions. Barricades are being erected
and trenches and drains made, and in case
of emergency the farms will be flooded
from the bog.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24
COST OF A SWELL WARDROBE.
ENhorbitant Prices Which the New YorI
Tailors Charge for Good Clothes.

Tailors Charge for Good Clothes.
New YORK, August l8.-I have heard
half dozen men say recently that they
found they could save money by going
to London to buy their clothing. 1t is
true of actors particularly, who arc
Obliged to have large number of suits
on hand, but the economy is Just as
evident among less extensive purchasers.
Herbert Kelley went to England this
year for the sole purpose Of rcplenishing
his wardrobe.
cone can get good clothes on this
side of the water, undoubtedly" he said
'but the trouble is they cost triple what
they do in London. A crack tailor here
charges $2O for pair of trousers, and
that sum will buy three pair in Eng
land"
The tailoB Of New York are constant
ly growing more oxhorhitant in their
prices. There arc Of course huge en-
periums or bazars where clothes are
clipped out like shoe pegs and sold like
hot Mullins but it goes without SAYING
that well dressed men do not patronizo
them.
a man to earn the distinction OF being
pronounced well dressed in New YORK
must exercise great care not to dress too
much or too highly. He must spend
considerable sums upon his attire, bat
nothing like the amounts set down OF
late in numerous articles that are going
about in the daily papers concerning
the cost of a wcll-drcssed New Workers.
wardrobe. The statement that ut least
twenty thousand men here spend five
thousand dollars year on their cloth
ing causes an aching void to replace
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24

No one should be guilty of travelling
to or from tho mountains Of North Car
olina without going at least one way via
tho Great ALI Healing Mineral Spring in
CASTOR county.
A disease, said TO be Texas fever, has
broken out among the cattle in the neigh
borhood OF 0swego, N. Y,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24

The Nationalist in Dublin are iubiNut
over the Gladstonian victory in Cheshire
They declare that the government cannot
proclaim the National League In the faco
of a defeat which completely changes the
political situation.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24
That Wonderful GObbIer.

Some weeks ago an item concerning a
remarkable turkey gobblcr, who had taken
upon himself the Offices Of mother, ap,
pcarcd in this paper, and we promised to
give the result of his performances. On
Saturday We met Captain j. V. George,
the owner of the how famous gObblcr, and
he said that he put him TO set on seven tur-
key, nine guinea and nine hen eggs, that
the turkey eggs broke during the procc $
OF incubation, but that at the proper time
he came off the nest with all the guincas
and chickens, and that he can be seen al
his farm, few miles from Aiken by all
who doubt the truth of the story. Captain
George says the gobbler treats his brood
with the most mothcrly attention, and that
they are all doing well. aiken HGcordtr.
Picrcc's Pleasant Purgative Pellets
are perfect preventives of constipation In.
closed in glass bottles, always fresh. by
all druggists.
Medical returns show that "a, 900 persons
died from cholera in the northwest pro
vinces OF India during June and July,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24
nEnEArm vouHrEEy noLLi>G CARES.

\ Columbia Brnkrmous Terrible Experience
hnorkcd OH the Car and Dragged a auortcr
OF Mile.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24

Grass widow" Is q misleading term
Such widows are never green.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24

annex to Cornell University, has Just by
Act of the Legislature given the appro-
priation to Cornell. Tho Hatch Act is
therefore removed from the arena of
debate.
Mr.. II. II. Thomas, of WedgcGeld, in
lettor to the News aud Courier, dated
April 23, 1877, said: Snow if this coun-
ty is an average, then out of the $40, 600
appropriated to the College and Citadell
the farmers pay $50, 900 a year to odu-
cate lawyers, doctors, preachers and sol
dlers, while nowhere in the State can o
farmers boy get n practical agricultural
and mechanical Cducatiou."
Sumter county is not an average, and
the farmers do rot pay three fourths of
the State taxes. Ii they did no one
would grudgc thcm tho hard earned
wealth that these taxes represent; and,
besides, it makes little difference what
class pays the most taxes SO long as each
individual bears his just burden, for the
State is an aggregation of individuals,
not of classes. But when such state
ment forms the justification Of tho
charge that the farmers arc swindlod, it
should not be made unless known to be
truc.
The report Of the comptroller general
for last year (pago l00) gives statement
of tho State taxes, the only source from
which comes tho appropriations for the
College and the Citadel. From this re-
port is taken the following summary;
Total State funds from
taxation, royalty, Ii
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24

Total State funds from
taxation, royalty, Ii
ccnscs, NC .
Taxes paid by railroads,
real estate in cities
and towns, personally
in Charleston and Co
lumbia. ....... SO
Phosphate royalties Is
License fees .....
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How Fowls Exercise.

Walking and scratching are
about the only forms of exercise
that our domestic fowls have. Tho,
do not like to fly much. 1t is not
their nature. Even the wild
species do not take wing unless in
an emergency, and our domestic
poultry have the powers of flight
further lessened; and as they are
not accustomed to flying and do
not use their wings much, the
muscle in these members and adj
Joining becomes weak, and their
bodies increase in size, making it
a very hard matter for them to fiy,
even if they should desire to do So.
But what strength they fail to ac-
quire by not exercising their wings
is gained in their legs, which are
kept almost constantly in motion
throughout the day, and even at
night they roost ON them. 1t has
been designed by nature that they
must use their legs and feet by
travelling about or scratching for a
living and this they will do almost
constantly when allowed to run at
large.
Fowls and birds of all kinds are
naturally more active than horses,
cattle or quadrupeds of any kind.
Even the sly cat is not nearly as &C
tive and constantly on the move
all day as are even our LATEST
breed of poultry. There is no lit
tie strength in the muscle of a
hens leg, which is shown by the
lively manner in which she
scratches the manure in the barn.
yard or rubbish around the wood
pile, and like all other muscles
they are made strong By use. All
kinds of animals can only be heal
thy and in good condition when
they have plenty of exercise
through which their muscles be-
come strong and well developed.
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School Reports.

Fourth monthly report of Ban
ner school for the month begin
ming Dec. 18th and ending Jan.
18th, 1887: number of pupils en-
rolled during the month Il; aver
age number of pupils attending
each day 81; number of days
taught 19. The names of those at
tending every day are: Henry
Miles, Bette VIM, Newton
VIM, Johnnie and Gertie Ell
moro, Allie Miles, Robbie Row.
land, Allen Brackney, Roy Ell.
more. The first five, together with
the following have not been tardy
during tho month, George Miles
Silas, Charley and Minnie VIM
Names of Visitors: Mr.. and Mrs
D. P. Huston, Mrs Henry Gilmore
Mrs. A. A. Brackney, Ollie
Daugherty, Ida and Willie Saun
ders, HELEN and Leo Conner
Misses Tilla Miles and Liza Par
cells, Messrs. Geo. VIM, Joh1
Gupton, Jim Vim, J. J. Hood
Albern Miles.
w. F. ENGLEHART,
Teacher.
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ing real estate, which has beer
sold, in many cases, lower during
the past two years than in any te,
years previously. Many of on
capitalists are beginning to Loo
around to see where they can i'll
vest so as to net three or four pc
,ent. per annum on such land
which is more than Government
bonds metz, and hare at tho sam,
time the advance III value to tn,
great increase of population.
"The four million farm owners
| and the four million lot owners o
America, are to day the best off O
any body of men OF the same
| number on this planet of ours, ant
they hold the fort against an,
species of anarchy in our land
Our advice to one and all is keel
| the old homestead when you can
| and to those who are toiling ano
saving also, get a bit of free soil
that you can call your cwn as ear
ly as you can"
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THROUGH s,,lzzEE!lssGG fssla lines

Deswsen 81 Louis and View York. Win TofeAo: 81
Louis and Boston. vi. Niagara Pelis. Chicago
and New York. via Detroit. and Niagara Fails; "a
Louis and 81. Pa. srd Minneapolis: 80. Louis
and Chieags: 81 Lo-,is and Knnsns City: 81
Louis and St. Josesh 81 Louis and Council Bluns
and Omaha. St. Louis and Otturnwn: ST. Louis
and Toledo: 81. Lsuis and Detroit: Chicago and
Kansas City; Kansas City and Des Mo.nss; De-
roit and IndiAznpoIa.
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Third monthly report of "Troy
Mills" school, commencing Nov.
18th and ending Jan. 9Th, 1887.
Number of pupils enrolled during
the month 43; number during
term 46; average number attending
each day 3S; average number of
days attended by each pupil Is;
total number of days attended by
all 76O. The following arc the
names of those whose department
for the month is 100: Lydia Long,
Maggie Engleheart, Alta Leech,
Willie Beets, Eddie Englehart,
John Long, Alta Corbin, Abbie
Levett, f. T. Parish, Rutherford
Beets, Madge Mahaffy, Ennetts
Ellis, Oracle Campbell, Lille
Beets, Minnie Beets, Earnest Cor
bin, G. s. Helwig. Charley Tickle,
Minnie Wright, Hannah Smith,
Eola Cerbin, Lee Tickle, Ora
Lsech, Phoebe Corbin, Frank
Tickle, Grant Corbin, Tobie Long,
and Leah Fry. Owing to the ex-
tremly cold weather we fear most
of our little ones will have to re-
main at home during the ensuing
month; but we hope they can con-
tinue their work. Little girls and
boys, if you cannot be with us in
the school room, in person, we
know your hearts are here. Do
not waste your time in fretting,
but study your books at home
JOHN LINvILLE, Teacher.
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Stand by the Farm.

A correspondent of the Belvi-
dere n. ]. Apollo offers sound
advice to farmers sons who con-
template selling their patrimonies
in order to embark in some kind
OF business which will bring them
"out in the world" The view
which the correspondent takes as
to the rising value of American
farm land is ono which must com.
mend itself to every observing and
thoughtful mind. Pursuing this
line of argument the writer says
Nothing is surer of yielding an
incomethan the lands, of America;
and also that the size of the coun-
try cannot be greater, while it is
almost absolutely certain that
within the next twenty-five years
our population of about sixty-mil-
lions will double, or reach the
enormous figures of one hundred
and twenty millions. Values OF
farms, and all real estate in fact,
advance in price the world over
just about in proportion as popu.
lation becomes dense. Thus in
England to-day good farms sell fo1
from three tofour hundred dollars
per acre, and there, as in Germany
and France, it is esteemed the best
propestyto hold or descend to heirs
whether it nets two or three per
cent, or more or less. Periodically
we have depression in farming
real estate, owing to various caus-
es-bad crops, or over abundant
crops for several years, each go to
produce this result. But after
each such depression an upward
bound carries the prices of farms
higher than ever known before.
This fact has occurred no less than
four times in the past fifty years
in all the good agricultural por-
tions of our Eastern States; and
We are apparently ON the eve of
another material advance in farm
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Take Warning.

For coughs and colds give Hol-
land Cough cure. If your child
has Group or whooping cough give
Holland Cough cure. In many
cases it saves you a large doctors
bill and severe spell of sickness.
j. G. Jamison is Agent
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THE POST-DISPATCH

Has the largest and best equipped staff of To-
cal news-gatherers in the city and in the
tributary, and enterprise in gathering the
aews has passed into proverb.
THE WEEKLY
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Are you gong South.

If so, it is of great Importance to
you to be fully informed as to the
cheapest, most direct and most
direct and most pleasant rout.
You will wish to purchase your
ticket via the route that will sub
ject you to no delays and by which
through trains are run. Before
you start you should provide
yourself with map and time
table of the Kansas City, Fort
Scott & Gulf Railroad (Memphis
Short Route South. The only
direct route from and via Kansas
City to all points in Eastern and
Southern Kansas, Southwest Mis-
souri, and Texas Practically the
only route from the West to all
Southern cities. Entire trains
with Pullman Palace Sleeping
Cars and free Reclining Chair
Cars, Kansas City to Memphis;
through Sleeping Car Kansas
City to New Orleans. This is the
direct route, and many miles the
shortest line to Little Rock, Hot
Springs Eureka Springs, Fort
Smith, Van Buren,, Fayetteville
and all points in Arkansas. Send
for a large map. Send fo- a
copy of the Missouri and Kansas
Farmer" an eight-page illustrated
paper, containing full and reliable
information in relation to the
great States of Missouri and Kan
sas. Issued monthly and mailed
free. Address.
J. E. LOCKWOOD.
G. P. & T. A. Kansas City
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THE POST-DISPATCH

Is, moreover, the only member in ST. Loui.
of the Evening Press Cable Syndicate which
receives daily special report, by Cable, o
European News up to the close of the day il
London.
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THE POST-DISPATCH

Has in addition pscia Leased Wire from
New York over VIII ch it II elves between five
and ten ten thousa dwor, of special tele-
graph news daily.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-16
Inks That Fade.

was chatting the other day with
the Vice-President of one OF the trunk
lines OF railway, when messenger. en-
tered with an important contract, hay
ing twenty-one years to run. It WWassa
traffic agreement with a competing
line, and was a very valuable document.
1t happened to be written. with a type
writer in aniline ink. Upon seeing this
ne positively refused to sign the paper
lie then took the contract to 1.-THE Presi-
dent of the road and said: Mr.. -,
If you want to, sign this contract, you
can do it, but | never will When
asked why, he replied: 'sIt#is written
in aniline ink, which fades, and long
before the expiration of this contract
this document will be entirely. faded
and practically worthless" The re-
suit was the return of the contract,
with request that hereafter all impor-
tant documents the preservation Of
which is desirable should be written in.
ink that would not fade. During Gen.
Grants term as President, records Of
an important branch of one of the de-
partn tents had PC been for two years
written in purple ink. He at once is
sued an rder forbidding it's use in the
department.. purchased a new set of
books into w. hich the two years. rec
ords were copitd, and thus saved what
in a few years years would otherwise have
been lost. 1t is or of the problems of
chemistry to find So netting which will
make permanent the beautiful Az anili1ne e
colors, but thus far. all: efforts have
failed. 1t is growing more and more
the custom to have dee. Is, contracts,
and valuable documents printed: on a
typewriter in aniline ink. This is a
great mistake, because in a I. few: years
they are sureto be oblitertlteds -7-114nae''a-
can Grocer s.". -;' %f!4 '@T' 'j t f. l, i:
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-16
ChareedIt to tbe Governo,.

Ex-Gov. Charles Foster of Ohio tells
a good story at his own expense. In
conversation during his last visit here
he said: "A few years ago when l
was Governor of Ohio l had occasion
in the course of a campaign to make a
political speech in a small town near
Columbus. The night was a stormy
one, but there was fair attendance
and my remarks were well received.
A couple of weeks later 1 received a
letter from a woman stating that she
had been very anxious to hear me speak;
that when spoke at-she decided to
go to the meeting, although the night
was cold and stormy and she was in a
delicate condition. Returning home
with her husband she slipped on piece
of ice, had a terrible fall, and an I'M
fortunate mishap in consequence She
and her husband both thought that if I
was made acquainted with the facts
that l would send them check to help
them out Well, I sent check, but
somehow the letter got out and the
boys charged the poor woman's mis-
fortune to my speech and not to the
fall. "-New York World.